A new video explains what happens to the human body when exposed to a nuclear bomb

Fears of a nuclear war intensified after Kim Jong-un ordered the rapid acceleration of the country’s nuclear weapons programme and repeatedly issued threats to the West and its allies.

Nuclear fallouts from a bomb or reactor blowing up can have major negative impacts on human life, from instant death if you’re in the immediate vicinity, to a slow painful roasting if you’re a bit further away.

According to a video by Digg, nuclear explosions can produce blasts of air similar to more conventional weapons.

The blast can injure the human body through effects such as rupturing ear drums or lungs, or by throwing people at dangerous speeds.

As with any blast, collapsing structures or flying debris can also lead to physical injury, ranging anywhere from smaller scrapes to a person’s entire skeleton being crushed.

However, nuclear blasts have a whole other level of harm to humans, generating an intense pulse of thermoradiation that can burn people’s skin off and set them alight.

It is typically worse for those closest to the centre of the nuclear blast site, with the possibility of their insides being roasted alive and their bodies being incinerated if they were close enough.

Exposure to radiation can damage DNA and cause cancer to develop in cells

According to Tonic, the radiation spit from a nuclear bomb can span the entire magnetic spectrum and falls into two categories: non-ionizing and ionizing.

Non-ionizing radiation, like radio and microwaves, are lower energy but can cause thermal burns.

The more potent ionizing radiation such as alpha and beta particles, positrons, neutrons, and especially X-rays and gamma rays, can cause DNA errors, cell death, and lead to the deadly acute radiation syndrome with the effects lasting for years.

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